Summary

Thoroughly Modern Millie is a high-spirited musical romp
that has all of New York dancing the Charleston. It's the zany new
1920's musical that has taken Broadway by storm!

Taking place in New York City in 1922, Thoroughly Modern Millie
tells the story of young Millie Dillmount, who has just moved to
the city in search of a new life for herself. It's a New York full
of intrigue and jazz - a time when women were entering the workforce
and the rules of love and social behavior were changing forever.
Based on the popular movie, the stage version of Thoroughly Modern
Millie includes a full score of new songs and bright dance numbers.

Filled with frisky flappers, dashing leading men and a dragon-lady
of a villainess audiences will love to hate, Thoroughly Modern Millie
is a perfectly constructed evening of madcap merriment. And with
the role of Millie Dillmount, musical theatre has found a new heroine
for the ages in Thoroughly Modern Millie.

Synopsis

Act One

Manhattan, 1922. Millie Dillmount steps off the train
from Salina, Kansas. Surrounded by a throng of fabulous flappers, Millie's
a fish out of water, until she bobs her hair and sheds her Sunday best
for a higher hemline and a hotter look. As she walks along the street
Millie is mugged. She seeks help from Jimmy Smith, but all he provides
is unsolicited advice for her to make a U-turn and return home. A week
passes, and we're at the Hotel Priscilla, where a bevy of stagestruck
hopefuls are starting their day. Enter Miss Dorothy, and she and Millie
quickly prove that opposites attract.

Meanwhile, in the laundry room, Mrs. Meers, the owner
of the hotel, plots to kidnap Miss Dorothy. Why? Mrs. Meers runs a white
slavery ring, targeting orphans whose sudden disappearance goes unnoticed,
and Miss Dorothy fits the bill. Mrs. Meers barks instructions at her
immigrant henchmen, Ching Ho and Bun Foo. The two brothers quarrel over
Ching Ho's crisis of conscience, but Bun Foo reminds him that crime is
the only career that pays well enough for them to bring their mother
over from Hong Kong.

Later that afternoon, Millie begins her job hunt, or
rather husband hunt: Millie's "modern" plan is to find work
as a stenographer to an eligible bachelor and wind up his wife. On her
list of potential bosses/hubbies is Trevor Graydon III at the Sincere
Trust Insurance Company.

Back at the hotel, Mrs. Meers tries to dope Miss Dorothy
with a poisoned apple, but is repeatedly interrupted. Millie takes the
Priscilla girls out on the town to celebrate her new job, and she runs
into Jimmy Smith. He gets them into a speakeasy, and though Millie is
initially standoffish, they eventually join in a dance. By the time they
are raided and land in jail, Jimmy reconsiders his assessment of Millie.
Jimmy asks Millie to a Yankees game, but she reveals her plan to marry
her boss. Saving face, Jimmy pretends that his interest is platonic,
suggesting that she bring Miss Dorothy along. A trio is formed for nightly
excursions to Coney Island, Central Park and the glamorous penthouse
of Muzzy Van Hossmere, Manhattan's most celebrated chanteuse.

Later that night, on Muzzy's terrace, Jimmy needles
Millie about her plan to marry a man who thinks of her as "a typewriter
on legs." Their quarrel escalates until, unable to control himself,
Jimmy kisses Millie passionately. He exits in a panic, leaving her alone
to sort out her feelings. She returns to the Hotel Priscilla in a state
of bliss, which is quickly shattered when she sees Jimmy sneaking out
of Miss Dorothy's room after what appears to be a late-night tryst.

Act Two

The next morning, Millie is miserable . She wills herself
into wasting no more time on Jimmy Smith. Instead, she redoubles her
efforts to seduce Mr. Graydon, until Miss Dorothy drops by and she and
Mr Graydon are immediately smitten. Jimmy appears on the window ledge
outside of Millie's office, where he declares his feelings for her. Millie,
too, is falling in love, as are Mr. Graydon, Miss Dorothy and Ching Ho,
whose heart has belonged to Miss Dorothy since the moment they met. Meanwhile,
Mrs. Meers is more determined than ever to get Miss Dorothy. Ching Ho
tries to stop her, but she reminds him of her promise to import their
elderly, ailing mother in exchange for their evil-doings.

Millie and Jimmy go to Café Society to hear Muzzy
sing but they can't pay the bill so they are put on dishwashing duty.
Millie realises that the unemployed Jimmy is as far from her plan to
marry well as a girl can get, so she flees the kitchen and heads to Muzzy's
dressing room for some sound advice. Muzzy explains that though she herself
married a multi-millionaire, she had no idea he was rich until after
their engagement, when a green glass brooch he gave her turned out to
be emeralds. Muzzy leaves Millie alone in the dressing room to mull over
her advice.

Mr. Graydon shows up at Café Society in a drunken
stupor: Miss Dorothy has checked out of the Hotel Priscilla with no forwarding
address. Putting their heads together, Millie, Jimmy and Mr. Graydon
realise that Mrs. Meers must be running a white slavery ring. They persuade
Muzzy into checking in as a new-orphan-in-town. Mrs. Meers takes the
bait and is exposed as the mastermind criminal she is.

With Mrs. Meers out of the way, Miss Dorothy is revealed
in Ching Ho's arms: he rescued her from an unspeakable fate and won her
heart into the bargain. Jimmy proposes to Millie, and, poor as he is,
she accepts, "because if it's marriage I've got in mind, love has
everything to do with it." Jimmy reveals himself to be Herbert J.
Van Hossmere III — Muzzy's stepson, Miss Dorothy's brother and
one of the most eligible bachelors in the world. The two couples kiss
as a throng of fabulous flappers appears. Through them walks another
girl from nowhere, ready to take her chances in the never-ending tale
that is New York City.